Thread: 1968 Mercedes 250SE - Mirror Detailing

Had a restoration shop call me last week about getting one of their cars done for it to go back to the customer. Shop manager was wanting to get the cars cleaned up after being finished, but wants them truly detailed. Did not have the time for any of his guys to learn...or who could truly do the work. Found me and had me come out last week and quote the car. Well everything was good and he dropped it off at the shop late Monday afternoon.

Car was to have the paint cleaned up to a good 90%+ correction, metals cleaned and sealed, interior carpets cleaned and interior cleaned. Car was a great piece to work on. It was restored by another shop some years ago and really had not been cleaned since. Normal scratches/swirls across the paint, plenty of holograms and interior was pretty grimy. Anyways....

No good before pictures as I did not have my camera. I went ahead and did a waterless wash and clayed the car the first night. Had it ready for buffing the next day, which is where the photos begin.





Starting on my test area to see what would yield the results I wanted.

Test area before...



Half and half...



And test area after both buffs...



General condition of the paint around the car...





The areas of the front bumper as I was working on them...

Pass side before and after...




Driver side before and after...




Then some light on the hood after doing half of it. Hard to tell but you can see the line running half way through the lights...



Then the front hood scope before and after...




Here a shot of the hood and the fender. Hood has already been done, fender untouched...



Now after working on the whole car...here are some shots of the paint after everything was completed...

A shot of the wheels before and after...




After everything was done....got to the interior...

The amazing amount of floormatts that came out of this thing...



After cleaning them...



Driver door panel before and after...




Driver interior before and after...




Pass interior before and after...




Pass door panel before and after...




And then inside waiting on the sun to come out, I snapped a few pictures...

Finally the sun came out...

Now back inside to wait till it got picked up, I snapped a few more pictures...

Such a sweet car. Great job!

I love that car, one of my all time fav. Job well done.

Nicely done!

Originally Posted by Aimee

Such a sweet car. Great job!

Originally Posted by RAWMEAN

I love that car, one of my all time fav. Job well done.

Thanks.

Great work!

looking good. nice job